Traditional values, not New Labour policy, will win Labour the next election. It’s time to go back to our social democratic principles

Redford, Pete and Hickson, Kevin
(2012)
Traditional values, not New Labour policy, will win Labour the next election. It’s time to go back to our social democratic principles.British Politics and Policy at LSE
(07 Feb 2012)
Blog Entry.

Abstract

Labour must ditch the belief that abandoning principles is necessary to win political power. Pete Redford and Kevin Hickson argue that the party must have confidence in its founding values, not in an attempt to reassure the disillusioned but simply because they are both right and popular with the electorate